How Comfortable Are You Leading Teams In The Hybrid World?

1. Your group is having trouble deciding when everyone should come in to office

You try to make everyone feel comfortable by asking them questions regarding their work and home schedules

Ask everyone to choose and let majority win in deciding the schedule

You go on with the agenda and tell everyone, when they have to come in as you cannot lose time discussing personal schedules

Draw up the strategy yourself as I know best the processes that need to be followed and then tell it to the team

Tell your team what the challenge is and ask for suggestions on how to meet it defining the goal

Hand over the project to your team members and ask them to come back with a plan to see if we can change the delivery

Let him/her discover the best way of working by assigning a buddy

Invite him/her into team collaborative meetings and asking them their areas of interest while assigning them a buddy

Give him/her very specific and small tasks to complete and ask them to be available to you all times incase you need to assign more work

Let it pass over as long as it is nothing major in regards to important meetings

Bring it up gently in a discussion as such issues need to be brought up

Bring it up to relevant team members in a 1-on-1

He/she is probably going out with friends

He/she is not interested in work and hence they often feel the need to take Fridays off

He/she may have some personal work and in any case if the leaves are available they have a right to take them

You give overall directions and leave it to the team member to work on it

You feel the need to give details of exactly how it needs to be done and by when it needs to be done

You give directions and ask for updates every day

You enquire about it in a casual but concerned manner to understand the issue

You ask him about the issues so that you can help solve them being there personally to ensure everything is ok

You stick to work and ask if any tasks need to be reassigned due to the personal exigency

You let him/her know that is not possible due to the lack of skill sets and convince them to do the work assigned and help reschedule

You ignore the remark and continue giving more relevant work as per the skills

You ask him/her to build the skills required so that they can take on new type of work while helping them reschedule

You ask them why and what is possible then renegotiating with the client

You explain to them how it can be done

You tell them there will be no renegotiating with the client

Include the team from inception to get ideas about feasibility

Include them for details so that they can give their input

Include them only for necessary items

Telling them the timelines and reasons of the rework

Telling them the details that need to be reworked

Giving them the benefits of the rework as well as reasons

You ask them to Take 5 while saying its ok for them to do so but as a manager you yourself will have to work 12 hours a day

You ask them if they need to reschedule some tasks for the day and Take 5

You encourage them to Take 5 and also do an stress busting activity